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    Traditional Alaskan Native religion involves mediation between people and spirits, souls, and other immortal beings. Such beliefs and practices were once...
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    Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous...
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    Native American religions are the spiritual practices of the Native Americans in the United States. Ceremonial ways can vary widely and are based on the...
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    the most widespread indigenous religion among Native Americans in the United States (except Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians), Canada (specifically...
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    Canada, parts of Siberia and Greenland. Their religion shares many similarities with some Alaska Native religions. Traditional Inuit religious practices include...
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  • Ojibwe religion is the traditional Native American religion of the Ojibwe people. It is practiced primarily in north-eastern North America, within Ojibwe...
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    separate from other native groups present elsewhere in the New World at the end of the Pleistocene. Ben Potter, the University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist...
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  • The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting at the time the largest...
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  • Crow religion is the indigenous religion of the Crow people, Native Americans of the Great Plains area of the United States. In the Crow language the Creator...
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  • represented secular indifference to religion or religious figures, while blasphemy was a more offensive attack on religion and religious figures, considered...
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    Lakota religion or Lakota spirituality is the traditional Native American religion of the Lakota people. It is practiced primarily in the North American...
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  • tribal religion Achuar religious beliefs Acoma traditional religion Aguaruna traditional beliefs Akawaio religion Alaska Native religion Inuit religion Tanana...
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    Shamanism among Alaska Natives was particularly important as it served to construct their special connection to their land, and a kinship with the animals...
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    (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third...
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  • include parts of south east Alaska. Haida mythology is an indigenous religion that can be described as a nature religion, drawing on the natural world...
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    Other cultures, including Alaska Natives, have traditionally had similar spiritual mediators, although the Alaska Native religion has many forms and variants...
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    America Discovered Native Spirituality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-516115-1 Alice Kehoe, Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological...
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    Abrahamic religions and Iranian religions), Indian religions, East Asian religions, African religions, American religions, Oceanic religions, and classical...
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    male moon gods often feature sun goddesses and vice versa. In Bakongo religion, the earth and moon goddess Nzambici is the female counterpart of the sun...
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    pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique [Kernos - International and multidisciplinary review of ancient Greek religion] (5). doi:10.4000/kernos...
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    Nevertheless it is usually grouped with the other Native languages. "Adults in Alaska". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. May 11, 2015. Samuel...
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    the INRI cross (Hebrew, Greek and Latin) as God's languages. In Hindu religion, "speech" Vāc, i.e. the language of liturgy, now known as Sanskrit, is...
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    raised were called etemmu.[clarification needed] Traditional Chinese folk religion involves necromancy in seeking blessing from dead ancestors through ritual...
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    (Chinese: 护法) have played, and continue to play, an important part in religion and government. The word "oracle" is used by Tibetans to refer to the spirit...
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    the Sunrise, 1932 statue Appeal to the Great Spirit, 1908 statue Native American religion Aṣẹ World Soul (disambiguation) Ostler, Jeffry. The Plains Sioux...
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    participating in it. Clifford Geertz considered it the core ritual in Javanese religion, in particular the abangan variant. The feast is common among the closely...
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  • dirt-affirming or otherwise. Through a complex and sophisticated reading of ritual, religion and lifestyle, Douglas challenged Western ideas of pollution and clarified...
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  • more frequently in cultures based in polytheism, animism, or shamanism. Religion and magic became conceptually separated in the West where the distinction...
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    there is complete continuity between magical thinking and religion, and that every religion is a cultural product, created by the human community that...
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    and prophets of the cults maintain that the manufactured goods of the non-native culture have been created by spiritual means, such as through their deities...
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